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Somebody at NRO said they couldn't stop listening to this. A Chopin earwig. Listen to it two or three times, and see if it does the same to your ears. He zooms around his simple theme like a whirling dervish.

How can someone this young have so much heart?

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That was amazing! For the life of me, I can't imagine how somebody can do that - even if you practice only one composition for years! Then, how do you memorize the entire piece?!

People who play the piano and organ well just amaze me. For that matter, people who play any instrument well do!

Thanks!

#1 mudbug on 2010-10-10 15:33 (Reply)

How can someone so young have so much heart? Well, Franz Schubert died at 31 and composed TONS of gorgeous, phenomenal music.

Prodigious musical talent is a gift from God.

#2 D on 2010-10-10 16:57 (Reply)

That led me to this performance . Sometimes it is good to be reminded just how good the talented really are.

#3 chuck on 2010-10-10 18:02 (Reply)

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=yeol+eum+son&qpvt=yeol+eum+son&FORM=Z7FD1#

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Can't help but contrast the young South Korean lady's performance with the news clip just now on TV showing today's magnificent mechanical North Korean military parade celebrating the political ascendance of --what the heck is this? --a Royal Communist? How...how...i mean...isn't communism the antithesis of royal succession -developed specifically to thwart it? oh hell i give up.

Good thing Ms. Son was born below the 38th parallel --what are the odds of that piano performance ever existing, otherwise?

#4 buddy larsen on 2010-10-10 18:12 (Reply)

Incredible and brilliant music, by both composer and player.

I was bored about three minutes in.

I'm not dumb, but I hate when I can't get what is supposed to be smart. What, exactly, am I missing?

#5 Mike3/9 on 2010-10-10 23:14 (Reply)

Maybe you just don't like the piece of music --could be too fast or slow, too loud or soft, too something or not enough something else. 'Taste' hasn't been outlawed yet, tho there's probably a bill being writ somewhere in congress.
:-(

#5.1 buddy larsen on 2010-10-11 02:06 (Reply)

Could be all that. More likely just a short attention span. I can be like a butterfly on speed at times.

#5.1.1 Mike3/9 on 2010-10-11 21:30 (Reply)

try this (once you get past the carmax ad, which is short) -- "The Little Bell" a Russian folk song done acapello and intercut with winter scenes from old Moscow. The elfin alto soprano standing behind the lead singer is worth the watching, even without the gorgeous song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNv5ZvzTGJw&feature=fvw

#5.1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2010-10-12 01:15 (Reply)

That was good. And led me off on a youtube reverie of Russian folk ballads of which I understood not a word but sure enjoyed the emotion though filled with that special Russian sadness.

#5.1.1.1.1 Mike3/9 on 2010-10-12 10:29 (Reply)

''special Russian sadness'' --yessir i agree --that's the core of it --real sad, and real pretty.

#5.1.1.1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2010-10-12 12:01 (Reply)

NPR broadcasts "From The Top" on the weekends which features young classical musicians. It's a medicine for melancholy for old farts like me, who has only lately come to love opera.

#6 BlogDog (Link) on 2010-10-11 11:08 (Reply)

try this BBC URL sometime, too --looks like there may be lots of potential there in the root URL --i saved this for the Beethoven 6th performance (which starts about 43 minutes into the lecture on same, which is also great but can be skipped by advancing slider to 43:00 minutes)

#6.1 buddy larsen on 2010-10-11 12:41 (Reply)

oops!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/discoveringmusic/pip/dcb64/

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#6.1.1 buddy larsen on 2010-10-11 12:43 (Reply)

wow. just wow.

#7 Sean G on 2010-10-12 04:02 (Reply)

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